Richard Griffith

Richard Griffith (11 January 1814-29 June 1862) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Richard Griffith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 11 January 1814, and he moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1840 after graduating from Ohio University. He served in the Mississippi Rifles of the US Army during the Mexican-American War, and he became a banker and US Marshal after the war. At the start of the American Civil War in 1861, he became a colonel of the Confederate States Army, and he commanded a regiment in John B. Magruder's division. He fought in Virginia, fighting at the Seven Days Battles near Richmond, Virginia, and he was killed in the Battle of Savage's Station on 29 June 1862, being wounded in the leg by a shell fragment.